Round 16 Discussion

[Eastdog]

Round 16 Fixture

Date Fixture Venue AEST

Jul 17 North Melbourne vs Essendon Etihad Stadium 7.50pm

Jul 18 Geelong vs Western Bulldogs Simonds Stadium 1.45pm

Jul 18 Gold Coast vs GWS Giants Metricon Stadium 2.10pm

Jul 18 Collingwood vs West Coast Etihad Stadium 4.35pm

Jul 18 Sydney vs Hawthorn ANZ Stadium 7.20pm

Jul 18 Fremantle vs Carlton Domain Stadium 7.40pm

Jul 19 Melbourne vs Brisbane MCG 1.10pm

Jul 19 Port Adelaide vs Adelaide Adelaide Oval 3.20pm

Jul 19 St Kilda vs Richmond Etihad Stadium

[Twodogs]

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Essendon playing more fluent football than North so far.

[GVGjr]

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I'm flicking between channels but I don't mind the game tonight. North are up and down again and often undo a lot of their good work.

Goldstein dominate again as he really beats up on undersized ruckman.

[Remi Moses]

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Same here . North were unimpressive, and for a team loaded to for a tilt, they're nowhere near it .
Goldstein just obliterated Essendon, and Hird doesn't pick a ruckman .

[Flamethrower]

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Collingwood's best 2 forwards are out - Cloke has a calf injury & Elliott is out for 2 to 3 weeks with a stress related back injury, but they are hanging tough against the high flying Eagles. If the Pies can pinch this it will be huge, but if the Eagles hold on the Pies spot in the 8 becomes increasingly precarious.

[boydogs]

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Collingwood's best 2 forwards are out - Cloke has a calf injury & Elliott is out for 2 to 3 weeks with a stress related back injury, but they are hanging tough against the high flying Eagles. If the Pies can pinch this it will be huge, but if the Eagles hold on the Pies spot in the 8 becomes increasingly precarious.

Lost by 5 goals. Adams is suspended too. We might be a chance

[bulldogtragic]

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Give Hawthorn the flag now. They're crazy good.

[Remi Moses]

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That result flattered the pies .
Only a matter of time before the dam wall broke

[bulldogtragic]

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I like how Sydney have evened the comp up by using the $900,000 cola on the highest paid, and highest under performing player in Tippett. He's so average it's not funny and not returning on the salary.

[Remi Moses]

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Hawthorn just demolished Sydney .
Sydney look old and tired

[Go_Dogs]

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Hawthorn just demolished Sydney .
Sydney look old and tired

Was just looking at the scores this morning. Hawks are just about unstoppable again.

[azabob]

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Give Hawthorn the flag now. They're crazy good.

Agree, well sort of.

Did Hawks lose too many early games?

They can't afford to play in Perth in week one of the finals and lose. I think they can beat Freo, but not sure they can out score West Coast.

West Coast have still have to play Sydney (Perth), Hawks (Perth), Fremantle (Perth) and Crows (Adelaide).

Based on current form West Coast would have to go in slight favourites in all of those games and if they win all of those games they finish first.

On the other hand Hawthorn's draw looks pretty good, other than West Coast in Perth. No interstate trips.

Freo's draw is very interesting indeed: Richmond (MCG), West Coast (WA), North (ES) and the final round of the season Port Power (Adelaide).

Sydneys draw is also isn't easy, W/C (WA), Adelaide (SCG), Geelong (Kardina Park), Collingwood (SCG), and GWS at Spotless Stadium.

Ladder as it stands

1. Freo - 13 wins, 128%
2. W/C - 12 wins, 156%
3. Hawks - 11 wins, 159%
4. Swans - 11 wins, 118%

I think the best Sydney can do is 4th, and the other 3 spots are still up for grabs.

[GVGjr]

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I don't exactly know why I'm interested but the Saints appear to be on the same path as we are. They have some great young talent and it's going to be interesting to see and hear about McCartin and Goddard starting their careers with them this year.

[Go_Dogs]

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I don't exactly know why I'm interested but the Saints appear to be on the same path as we are. They have some great young talent and it's going to be interesting to see and hear about McCartin and Goddard starting their careers with them this year.

They've done well through the last couple of drafts, but I don't think they bat as deep as us with their young players and think they'll end up having a few less A grade players under 23 than we do.

Despite some concerns over their recruiting whilst they were up, they came out with a much better balanced list than we did.

The end result is they should remain competitive the next few years but I'm not sure they have the potential a few other developing sides have.

[Remi Moses]

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Tend to agree . Stkilda chap I work with says the same thing .
They're carrying probably one or two to many older types